Democrats attacked Donald Trump’s stance on wages Monday, but were the claims accurate?"Donald Trump actually stood on a debate stage and said that wages are too high,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told the Philadelphia delegates at the Democratic National Convention.The statement was echoed by fellow Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, who loudly recited, "Wages in America, quote, are too high.” The quote is attributed to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who did say those words during a Republican primary debate.The truth meter reads false on the democrats’ statements, because party leaders have been taking the quote out of context since last November.During an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Dec. 28, Bernie Sanders said, "He (Trump) believes that wages in America are too high."The claim, however, is a distortion. The statement was made as Trump was answering a specific question as to whether he would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. “Taxes too high. Wages too high. We're not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it (the federal minimum wage) the way it is,” Trump said.In numerous followup interviews, Trump said that he did not make a generalized statement about people in America earning too much money. He was, and it’s clear in his recorded statement, saying that he was answering the question about raising the minimum wage, which he opposes.The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, or $15,704 annually. Raising the hourly minimum wage to $15 would produce an annual salary of $31,200, something presumptive democratic nominee Hillary Clinton supports. The Florida minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage at $8.05 per hour, or $17,680 annually.In another DNC assertion that doesn’t hold true, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders greatly exaggerated economic research to bolster his argument that wealthy Americans are getting richer, while middle and lower classes get poorer. Sanders said he wants the rich to be taxed more and is fighting for pay equity.“The top one percent, in recent years, has earned 85 percent of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change,” Sanders said.FactCheck.org has been spending a lot of time reviewing what Sanders has been saying about the economy. According to that review, the Sanders statement is false.FactCheck points to the most recent of regular reports, entitled "Striking it Richer" by University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez.Saez reports that between 1993 and 2015, the "top one percent of families still capture 52 percent of total real income, not 85 percent as Sanders stated.The study does, however, conclude "income inequality remains extremely high" and that wealthy people, like Trump, are growing their incomes at a faster rate than the middle and lower classes in this country.

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Democrats attacked Donald Trump’s stance on wages Monday, but were the claims accurate?

"Donald Trump actually stood on a debate stage and said that wages are too high,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told the Philadelphia delegates at the Democratic National Convention.

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The statement was echoed by fellow Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, who loudly recited, "Wages in America, quote, are too high.”

The quote is attributed to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who did say those words during a Republican primary debate.

The truth meter reads false on the democrats’ statements, because party leaders have been taking the quote out of context since last November.

During an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Dec. 28, Bernie Sanders said, "He (Trump) believes that wages in America are too high."

The claim, however, is a distortion. The statement was made as Trump was answering a specific question as to whether he would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. “Taxes too high. Wages too high. We're not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it (the federal minimum wage) the way it is,” Trump said.

In numerous followup interviews, Trump said that he did not make a generalized statement about people in America earning too much money. He was, and it’s clear in his recorded statement, saying that he was answering the question about raising the minimum wage, which he opposes.

The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, or $15,704 annually. Raising the hourly minimum wage to $15 would produce an annual salary of $31,200, something presumptive democratic nominee Hillary Clinton supports.

The Florida minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage at $8.05 per hour, or $17,680 annually.

In another DNC assertion that doesn’t hold true, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders greatly exaggerated economic research to bolster his argument that wealthy Americans are getting richer, while middle and lower classes get poorer. Sanders said he wants the rich to be taxed more and is fighting for pay equity.

“The top one percent, in recent years, has earned 85 percent of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change,” Sanders said.

FactCheck.org has been spending a lot of time reviewing what Sanders has been saying about the economy. According to that review, the Sanders statement is false.

FactCheck points to the most recent of regular reports, entitled "Striking it Richer" by University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez.

Saez reports that between 1993 and 2015, the "top one percent of families still capture 52 percent of total real income, not 85 percent as Sanders stated.

The study does, however, conclude "income inequality remains extremely high" and that wealthy people, like Trump, are growing their incomes at a faster rate than the middle and lower classes in this country.